Sentences with phrase «reduced federal role»

Investors in student loan companies and for - profit colleges are assuming that with both a Republican president and control of Congress there will be a reduced federal role in education lending and a lower level of enforcement efforts.

With this in mind, it is no surprise that he supported the Bipartisan Student Loan Certainty Act because it reduced the federal role in student loans.

It strikes me that those troubled by a reduced federal role seem to imbue federal efforts in this area with a sleekness, modesty, and effectiveness which I don't recognize.

Conservative scholars Myers and Wallach wrote, «We favor a dramatically reduced federal role in education.

Even the Every Student Succeeds Act, the law's 2015 iteration, which reduces the federal role in school accountability, still insists that state and local governments focus attention on the lowest - performing schools.

With ESSA came the promise to reduce the federal role and restore state and local control over K - 12 education.

For the last four years, Republicans have taken pains to avoid giving President Obama any legislative victories and have been unwilling to compromise on their philosophy of reducing the federal role in education.

What moderate Republicans are going to have trouble with is the tension with those [in their party] who want to reduce the federal role to revenue - sharing with states, block grants, for example, with few or no strings attached.

But just because the current law is a political loser doesn't mean its replacement — which reduces the federal role in education policy while eliminating the old law's unpopular performance targets for schools — is an automatic winner.

The House just barely passed a bill on a 218 - 213 vote that would go much further than the Senate's version in reducing the federal role in education.

Republican Representative Pete Sessions is «committed to reevaluating and reducing the federal role in higher education.»

Not exact matches

Electricity generated by solar panels and windmills has played a bigger role in the energy mix in recent years as the federal government and states seek to reduce heat - trapping gases through ambitious climate goals.

ISAs are gaining more attention as analysts speculate how the federal government's role in student lending could be reduced.

Unfortunately the Fraser Institute interprets federal budget history from its desire to reduce significantly the size and role of the federal government.

Arguably his signature achievement is to have radically reduced the fiscal capacity of the federal government, and with it, the broader role of government in advancing the economic and social welfare of Canadians.

Successful, cost - effective federal nutrition programs play a critical role in reducing child poverty and helping children access healthy foods while improving their overall health, development, and school achievement.

Block grants are a favorite tool of conservatives to shrink the role of the federal government and reduce the size of social programs, but as the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities well articulated in a statement hastily released yesterday, block grants in the particular context of school food are very likely to put children's health and wellbeing at risk:

Two other accompanying white papers describe the critical role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the federal Child Nutrition Programs in alleviating poverty, reducing food insecurity, and improving nutrition, health, and well - being.

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

The federal government plays a vital role in the success of these programs: providing reimbursements for each meal served, ensuring equal access to free and reduced price meals for students in need and administering national nutrition standards.

Rep. Charlie Rangel emailed supporters today to tout his role in reducing federal student loan interest rates when he was Ways and Means chairman and lauding President Obama's push to prevent that law from expiring this July.

In common with other appointments these Cabinet members share a strong advocacy of market based policies and a severely reduced federal regulatory role.

The state budget in response would expand the role of the executive office and authorize the state budget director to reduce available funds during the fiscal year if federal revenues are lower than projected — including after the legislature signs off on the plan.

As The Washington Post recently reported, «the Trump administration is reducing the role of the federal government in fighting discrimination and protecting minorities by cutting budgets, dissolving programs and appointing officials

He's claimed that the Federal Government has the role to incentivize innovative energy technology, and he's desired to reduce «expensive, polluting, and terror promoting foreign oil» since January 2006.

The education issues paper also hints that the Federal Government could reduce its role in the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) and the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership (AITSL) believing it had played its part through establishing a national curriculum and creating NAPLAN, and that these could be maintained by the states and territories.

In the current re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, many in Congress are eager to reduce the role of the federal government in education and restore power to states.

On the Republican side, you have many who want to dramatically reduce the federal footprint in federal education policy, and then others who accept that there is going to be a federal role, and think it needs to enhance accountability and expand choice where possible.

Kline's efforts would reduce the federal government's role in education, he said.

At the federal level, it calls on the U.S. Congress and Obama Administration to overhaul «No Child Left Behind» and «to reduce the testing mandates, promote multiple forms of evidence of student learning and school quality in accountability, and not mandate any fixed role for the use of student test scores in evaluating educators.»

«The federal government has a unique role to play, mainly in reducing the cost of capital for them to acquire these buildings,» Christy Wolfe, senior policy adviser at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, told The 74.

E4E teachers came to D.C. on the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination to share with Secretary DeVos that the Federal Department of Education has a critical role to play in protecting the civil rights of all students and as a result must continue to highlight the disparities that exist in school discipline, investigate districts where those disparities may be caused by bias, and support the implementation of strategies to reduce punitive discipline.

Those debates may have dissipated a bit with the newly passed Every Student Succeeds Act that reduces the role of the federal government in requiring test score accountability in teacher evaluations.

The federal government plays a vital role in the success of these programs: providing reimbursements for each meal served, ensuring equal access to free and reduced price meals for students in need and administering national nutrition standards.

Setting aside billions in federal funds to create a marketplace where none existed would be a significant departure from Trump's argument that the federal government needs to reduce its role in education.

Despite lengthy and sometimes raucous debate, Republicans reiterated their firm commitment to reducing the federal government's role in local education decision making.

The federal role in local schools would be significantly reduced under a bipartisan proposal released Tuesday by Senate leaders working to replace No Child Left Behind, the country's main education law.

It's thought that Alexander's overhaul could end up greatly reducing the federal government's role in education and leaving more oversight to the states.

Introduced by education committee chair Rep. John Kline (R - MN), the Student Success Act (H.R. 5) would significantly reduce the role of the federal government in education by moving spending and accountability decisions to state and local authorities.

My re-regulation would be to reduce the Federal Government's role in the credit markets, but then, I am walking out of step, and realize that is not what is going to happen.

Over the previous decade, the government has largely reduced the role of private banks in student loans while the federal government essentially picked up the slack.

A federal budget document issued by the Trump administration has proposed the elimination of the tourism marketing as the president seeks to reduce the role of the federal government.

Yet in a recent Facebook posting, Dominion claimed the Atlantic Coast Pipeline would «play an instrumental role in reducing carbon emissions in Virginia and North Carolina, which will allow both states to meet the requirements of the federal Clean Power Plan.

The Department of Energy can use its role as the research and development arm of the federal government to improve the effectiveness and reduce the costs of emissions measurement and control technologies, such as methane isotope analyzers, infrared cameras, and portable compressors.

US District Judge Lynn Adelman (ED Wisc): «Booker does two things that will lead to a more just system: (1) it restores federal judges to a meaningful role in the sentencing process; and (2) it makes clear that fairness in sentencing requires consideration of factors other than reducing sentencing disparities.»

Until late 2016, there appeared to be no consideration that the federal government might even have a role to play in reducing incarceration.

I am also concerned about the reduced role of the Federal Court in mediation.

The Trump Administration's 2018 budget for the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) indicates a desire to continue promoting housing while reducing the federal government's role on urban development.

This past August, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, conservator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, asked for public comment on ways to reduce the government - sponsored enterprises» roles in the multifamily finance market in 2014.